National Affairs: 25 Lousy Cents!

Five Southern Democrats and four Republicans sat smiling at a lady one
day last week in the cramped, dim-lit House Rules committee-room on the
third floor of the Capitol. The nine smug gentlemen, key bloc of the
conservative coalition now dominating the House, could afford to be
gracious to hard-plugging Mary Norton, Labor committee chairlady,
because they had just finished trampling roughshod over her.

Buxom Mrs. Norton, no tearful, bumbling matron but a toughened
politician of Mayor Frank Hague's hard-boiled Jersey City school, well
knew what was about to happen. For while her New...